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[Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>]

.:Right-o! Lowe's was founded in Wilkes County, where I grew up. Lowe's 
.:is one of the few Fortune 500 companies with headquarters in N.C. and 
.:has made a lot of North Carolinians very wealthy. 

You grew up in Wilkes?!  I knew there was *something* wrong with ya... ;)


.:(BTW, Lowe's is pulling a lot 
.:of its HQ jobs out of Wilkes and the housing market is depressed. 

Lowe's is moving its HQ to the Charlotte 'burbs.  (I believe Mooresville 
is where they're building the new campus, but it might be somewhere else 
on the Lake Norman shores.)  As I understand it, they're a good 2+ years 
away from moving completely out of Wilkesboro.  A friend of mine does IT 
for them and I haven't heard him announce any moving plans yet.


.:If you 
.:want a nice house in the foothills, Wilkes is your place.... a mansion 
.:for the price of a condo...)

*ahem*  Wilkes is your place if you like Nascar (or just Nascar beer) and 
don't mind dealing with small telecomm companies.  Granted, you don't have 
to deal with BellSouth, you just don't get their infrastructure.  (If 
nothing else demonstrates the quality of BS's infrastructure, trying to 
get modern services in the mountains will.)

But if you don't mind the joys of home telecomm repair, and you don't mind 
driving to Boone for beer (or Winston, depending on whether you drive 
faster on straight or curvy roads) ... and you don't mind the locals ... 
then Wilkes might just be the place for you.  (Heck, even trailer parks 
are safe ... it's too hilly for tornadoes!)

All other things aside, it *is* some beautiful countryside.

--Sil

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